"Finding Home" Creative Writing Workshop with Sadhbh Walshe

"Finding Home" Creative Writing Workshop with Sadhbh Walshe

Join NYIC for the first in a series of creative writing workshops with published authors as students embark on a day-long writing journey.

By The New York Irish Center

Date and time

Saturday, January 25 · 1 - 6pm EST

Location

New York Irish Center

1040 Jackson Ave Long Island City, NY 11101

About this event

Join our free creative writing workshop with writer Sadhbh Walshe as she leads an intimate group of writers in a creative workshop with a focus on the themes (immigration, family, assimilation, etc.) of the novel The Namesake.

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Sadhbh Walshe is a New York based writer and journalist. She has written op eds and features for The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, NBC Think, CBS, The Irish Times, The Chicago Tribune, Al Jazeera America, and she wrote a weekly opinion column for The Guardian. She was awarded a John Jay/ H.F Guggenheim justice fellowship and was named a Soros Justice fellowship finalist for her year-long Guardian series, Inside Story: The US Prison System. She was an associate producer for the TV pilot The District on CBS and a staff writer for the syndicated tv series. She wrote and directed the award-winning short film Miss Bertram’s Awakening and her short play Sanctuary was recently produced as part of Origin Theatre’s Breaking Ground series in New York. The Write Off is her most recent full-length play.

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